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I'd like to tell you aboutthe strangest secret in the world.

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Some years ago,

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the late Nobel Prize winning doctor,Albert Schweitzer, was being interviewed

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in London and a reporter asked him,Doctor, what's wrong with men today?

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And the great doctor was silent a moment.

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And then he said men simply don't think

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it's about this that Iwant to talk with you.

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We live today in a golden age.

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This is an era that man has looked forward

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to, dreamed of and workedtowards for thousands of years.

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But since it's here,we pretty well take it for granted.

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We in America are particularly fortunateto live in the richest land that ever

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existed on the face of the earth, a landof abundant opportunity for everyone.

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But you know what happens?

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Well, let's take 100 menwho start even at the age of 25.

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Do you have any idea what will happento those men by the time they're 65?

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These 100 men who all start even

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at the age of 25, believethey're going to be successful.

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If you ask any one of these menif you wanted to be a success.

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He did.He did.

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And you'd notice that hewas eager toward life.

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That there was a certain sparkle to hiseye, indirectness to his courage and life

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seemed like a prettyinteresting adventure to him.

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But by the time they're 65,

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one we'll be richfor we'll be financially independent.

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Five will still be working.

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Fifty four, we'll be broke.

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I think a moment out of the 100.

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Only five make the grade.

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Now, why do so many fail?

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What has happened to the sparklethat was there when they were 25?

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What's become of the dreams,their hopes, the plans?

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And why is there such a large disparity

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between what these men intended to doand what they actually accomplished?

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When we see about five percent achievedsuccess, we have to define success.

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And here's the best definitionI've ever been able to find.

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Success is the progressive realizationof a worthy ideal.

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If a man is working toward a predetermined

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goal and knows where he's going,that man is a success.

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If he's not doing that, he's a failure.

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Success is the progressive realizationof a worthy ideal Rollo made.

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The distinguished psychiatrist wrote

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a wonderful book calledMan's Search for Himself.

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And in this book, he says, the opposite ofcourage in our society is not cowardice.

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It is conformity.

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And there you have the troubletoday is conformity.

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People acting like everyone else without

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knowing why, without knowingwhere they're going.

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Think of it.

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In America right now,there are over 18 million people,

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65 years of age and older,and most of them are broke.

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They're dependent on someoneelse for life's necessities.

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Now we learn to read.

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But the time I was seven,we learned to make a living.

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By the time we're 25,usually by that time,

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we're not only making a living,we're supporting a family.

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And yet, by the time we're 65,we haven't learned how to become

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financially independent in the richestland that has ever been known.

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Why?

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We conform, and the trouble is that we'reacting like the wrong percentage group.

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The 95 who don't succeed.

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Why do these people conform?

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Well, they really don't know.

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These people believe that their lives areshaped by circumstances,

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by things that happen to them, by exteriorforces, their outer directed people.

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A survey was made one time that covereda lot of men, working men.

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And these men were asked, why do you work?

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Why do you get up in the morning?

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19 out of 20 had no idea.

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If you ask them, they'll say, well,everyone goes to work in the morning.

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And that's the reason they do it,because everyone else is doing it.

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Now, let's get back to ourdefinition of success.

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Who succeeds?

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The only person who succeeds

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is the person who is progressivelyrealizing a worthy idea.

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Is the person who says I'm going to become

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this and then beginsto work toward that goal.

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I'll tell you, the successful people are.

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As success as the school teacher who'steaching school because that's where he or

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she wants to do success is the woman who'sa wife and mother because she wanted

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to become a wife and motherand is doing a good job of it.

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The success is a man who wins the cornergas station because that was his dream.

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That's what he wanted to do.

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The successes, the successful salesman,

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he wants to become a top notch salesmanand grow and build with his organization

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a success as anyone who is doingdeliberately a pre-determined job,

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because that's what hedecided to do deliberately.

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But only one out of 20 does that.

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That's why today thereisn't really any competition unless we

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make it for ourselves insteadof competing or we have to do is create.

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In over 20 years, I looked for the key,

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which would determine whatwould happen to a human being.

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Was there a key I wanted to know

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which would make the future a promisethat we could foretell to a large extent?

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Was there a key that would guarantee

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a person's becoming successful if you onlyknew about it and knew how to use it?

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Well, there is such a key and I found it.

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Have you ever wondered why so many men

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worked so hard and honestly withoutever achieving anything in particular?

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And others don't seem to work hardand yet seem to get everything.

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They seem to have the magic touch.

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You've heard them say that about someone.

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Everything he touches turns to gold.

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And have you ever noticed that a man

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who became successful tendsto continue to become successful?

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And on the other hand,

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have you noticed how a man who'sa failure tends to continue to fail

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because of goals?

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Some of us have goals.Some don't.

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People with goals succeed becausethey know where they're going.

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It's that simple.

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Think of a ship leaving a harbor and think

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of it with a complete voyagemapped out and planned.

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The captain and crew know exactly whereit's going and how long it'll take.

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It has a definite goal

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and nine thousand nine hundred ninetynine times out of ten thousand.

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It will get to whereit started out to get.

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That must take anothership just like the first.

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Only let's not put a crew on itor a captain at the helm.

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Let's give it no aiming point,no goal, no destination.

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We just start the engines and let it go.

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I think you'll agree with me that ifit gets out of the harbor at all.

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It will either sink or wind upon some deserted beach, a derelict.

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It can't go anyplace because it hasno destination and no guidance.

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And it's the same with a human being.

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Take a salesman, for example.

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There's no other person in the worldtoday with the future of a good salesman.

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Selling is the world'shighest paid profession.

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If we're good at it and ifwe know where we're going.

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Every company needs top notchsalesmen and they reward those men.

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The sky's the limit for them.

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But how many can you find?

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Someone once said the human race is fixed

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not to prevent the strong from winning,but to prevent the weak from losing.

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The American economy today can belikened to a convoy in time of war.

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The entire economy is slowed downto protect its weakest link.

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Just as the convoy had to go at the speed

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that would permit the slowestvessel to remain information.

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That's why it's so easyto make a living today.

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It takes no particular brains or talent tomake a living and support a family today.

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So we have a plateau of so-called

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security, if that's whata person is looking for.

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But we do have to decide how highabove this plateau we went away.

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Now, let's get back to the strangest

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secret in the world, a storythat I wanted to tell you today.

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Why do men with goals succeedin life and men without them fail?

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Well, let me tell you something, which,

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if you really understand it,will alter your life immediately.

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If you understand completely what I'm

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going to tell you from this moment on,your life will never be the same again.

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You'll suddenly find it.Good luck.

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There seems to be attracted tothe things you want.

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Just seem to fall in line.

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And from now on, you won't havethe problems, the worries.

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Knowing a lump of anxiety that perhapsyou've experienced before.

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Doubt.Fear.

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Well, there'll be things of the past.

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Here's the key to success.

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And the key to failure.

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We become what we think about.

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Well, let me say that again.

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We become what we think about.

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Throughout all history,the great wise men and teachers,

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philosophers and prophets have disagreedwith one another on many different things.

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It's only on this one point that theyare in complete and unanimous agreement.

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Listen to what Marcus Aurelius,the great Roman emperor, said.

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A man's life is what histhoughts make of it.

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The Israelis said this.

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Everything comes of a man will only wait.

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I brought myself by long meditationwith the conviction that a human being

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with a central purpose must accomplish itand that nothing can resist a will

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that will stake even existencefor its fulfillment.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson said this A manis what he thinks about all day long.

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William James said The greatest discoveryof my generation is that human beings can

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alter their livesby altering their attitudes of mind.

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And he also said,we need only in cold blood.

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Act as if the thing in question were realand it will become infallibly real

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by growing into such a connectionwith our life that it will become clear.

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It will become so neat with habit

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and emotion that our interest in it willbe those which characterise belief.

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The author said

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if you only care enough for a result,you will almost certainly attain it.

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If you wish to be rich, you will be rich.

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If you wish to be learned,you will be learned.

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If you wish to be good, you will be good.

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Only you must and really wish these thingsand wish them exclusively and not wish

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at the same time 100 otherincompatible things just as strongly.

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In the Bible, you read in Mark, 923

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is our chance to believe all thingsare possible to him that believe.

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My old friend, Dr.Norman Vincent Peale, put it this way.

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This is one of the greatestlaws in the universe fervently.

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Do I wish I had discoveredit as a very young man.

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It dawned upon me much later in life,and I found it to be one of the greatest,

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if not my greatest discoveryoutside of my relationship to God.

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The great law, briefly and simply stated,

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is that if you think in negative terms,you will get negative results.

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If you think in positive terms,you will achieve positive results.

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That is the simple fact.

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He went on to say, which is that the basisof an astonishing law of prosperity

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and success in three words,believe and succeed.

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William Shakespeare put it this way.

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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose

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the good we often mightwin by fearing to attempt.

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George Bernard Shaw said people are always

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blaming their circumstancesfor what they are.

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I don't believe in circumstances

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that people who get on in this world orthe people who get up and look

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for the circumstances they wantand if they can find them, make them.

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Well, that is pretty apparent, isn't it?

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And every person who discovered this

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for a while believed that he wasthe first one to work it out.

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We become what we think about.

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Now, it stands to reason that a personwho is thinking about a concrete

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and worthwhile goal is going to reach itbecause that's what he's thinking about.

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And we become what we think about.

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Conversely, the man who has no goal,who doesn't know where he's going

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and who's thoughts,must therefore be facing confusion

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and anxiety and fear and worry becomeswhat he thinks about

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his life becomes one of frustrationand fear and anxiety and worry.

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And if he thinks about nothing,he becomes nothing.

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How does it work?

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Why do we become what we think about?

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Well, I'll tell you how it worksas far as we know how to do this.

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I want to tell you about a situationthat parallels the human mind.

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Suppose a farmer has some landand it's good, fertile land.

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Now the land gives the farmer a choice.

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He may plant in that landwhatever he chooses.

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The land doesn't care.

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It's up to the farmerto make the decision.

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Now, remember, we're comparing the humanmind with the land because the mind,

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like the land, doesn'tcare what you plant in it.

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It will return what you plant,but it doesn't care what you plant.

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Now, let's say that the farmerhas two seeds in his hand.

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One is a seed of corn.

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The other is nightshade, a deadly poison.

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He digs two little holes in the earth

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and he plants both seeds,one corn, the other nightshade.

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He covers up the holes,waters and takes care of the land.

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And what will happen?

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Invariably, the land will return wasplanted as it's written in the Bible.

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As you so so shall you reap.

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I remember the land doesn't care.

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It returned poison in just aswonderful abundance as it will corn.

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So up come the two plants.

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One corn, one poison.

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Now the human mind is far more fertile,

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far more incredibleand mysterious than the land.

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But it works the same way.

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It doesn't care what we plant.

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Success, failure,

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a concrete worthwhile goal or confusion,misunderstanding, fear, anxiety and so on.

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But what we plant, it must return to us

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is the human mind is the last greatunexplored continent on earth.

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It contains riches beyondour wildest dreams.

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It will return anything we want to plant.

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You might say, well, if that's true,why don't people use their minds more?

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Well, I think they figured out an answer

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that went through our mind comesas standard equipment at birth.

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It's free and things that aregiven to us for nothing.

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We place little value on thingsthat we pay money for, we value.

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The paradox is that exactlythe reverse is true.

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Everything that's reallyworthwhile in life.

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Kimber's free our minds, our souls,

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our bodies, our hopes, our dreams,our ambitions, our intelligence,

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our love of family and childrenand friends and country.

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All these priceless possessions are free,

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but the things that cost us money areactually very cheap and can be replaced

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with anytime a good man can becompletely wiped out to make a fortune.

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You can do that several times.

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Even if our home burns down,we can rebuild it.

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But the things we got for nothingwe can never replace.

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The human mind isn't usedbecause we take it for granted.

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Familiarity breeds contempt.

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It can do any kind of job we assign to it,but generally speaking,

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we use it for little jobsinstead of big important ones.

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Universities approve that.

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Most of us are operating at about 10percent or less of our abilities.

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So decide now, what is it you want?

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Plant your goal in your mind.

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It's the most important decisionyou ever make in your entire life.

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What is it you want?

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You want to be an outstanding salesman,a better worker at your particular job.

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You want to go places in yourcompany, in your community.

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Do you want to get rich?

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All you gotta do is plantthat seed in your mind.

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Care for it.Work steadily toward your goal.

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And it will become a reality.

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It not only will, there isno way that it cannot see.

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That's a law like the lawsof Sir Isaac Newton, the laws of gravity.

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If you get on top of a buildingand jump off, you'll always go down.

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You will never go up.

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And it's the same with allthe other laws of nature.

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They always work.They're inflexible.

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Think about your goalin a relaxed, positive way.

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Put yourself in your mind's eye ashaving already achieved this goal.

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See yourself doing the things you willbe doing when you've reached your goal.

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As has been Calvi Phenobarbital age,

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the age of Oates's and nervousbreakdowns and tranquilizers.

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At a time when medical research has raisedus to a new plateau of good health among

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Jabri, far too many of us worry ourselvesinto an early grave,

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trying to cope with things in our ownlittle personal ways without learning

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a few great laws that will takecare of everything for us.

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These things we bring on ourselvesthrough our habitual way of thinking.

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Every one of us is the sumtotal of his own thoughts.

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He is where he is because that's exactly

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where he really wants to be,whether he'll admit that or not.

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Each of us must live off the fruitof his thoughts in the future.

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Because what you think today and tomorrow,

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next month or next year will moldyour life and determine your future.

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You're guided by your mind.

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I remember one time I was driving through

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eastern Arizona and I saw one of thosegiant earthmoving machines roaring along

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the road at about 35 miles an hour withwhat looked like 30 tons of dirt in it.

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A tremendous, incredible machine.

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And there was a little man perched way up

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on top with the wheelin his hands guiding it.

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And as I drove along,

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I was struck by the similarityof that machine with the human mind.

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Just suppose you're sitting at thecontrols of such a vast source of energy.

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Are you going to sit back and fold yourarms and let it run itself into a ditch?

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Or are you gonna keep both hands firmly

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on the wheel and control and direct thispower to a specific worthwhile purpose?

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It's up to you.You're in the driver's seat.

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You see the very law that givesus success as a two edged sword.

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We must control our thinking.

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The same rule can lead a man to a lifeof success, wealth,

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happiness and all the things he everdreamed of himself in his family.

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That very same walkand leading into the gutter.

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It's all in how he usesit for good or for bad.

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This is the strangest secret in the world.

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Why do I see it strangeand why do I go to the secret?

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Actually, it isn't a secret at all.

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It was first promulgated by some

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of the earliest wise men and it appearsagain and again throughout the Bible.

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But very few people have learned it.I understand it.

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That's why it's strange.

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And why is I'm equally strange reasonit virtually remains a secret.

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I believe that you could go out and walkdown the main street of your town and ask

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one man after another whatthe secret of success is.

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And you probably wouldn't run into one man

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in a month who could tell you that thisinformation is enormously valuable to us.

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If we really understand it and apply it,

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it's valuable to us not only for our ownlives, with the lives of those around us,

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our families, employees,associates and friends.

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Life should be an exciting adventure.

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It should never be a bore.

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A man should live fully, be alive.

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He should be glad to getout of bed in the morning.

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He should be doing a job he likesto do because he does it well.

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One time I heard Grove Patterson,

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the great late editor in chiefof the Toledo Daily Blade, make a speech.

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And as he concluded his speech,he said something I've never forgotten.

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He said My years in the newspaper business

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have convinced me of several thingsamong them, that people are basically good

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and that we came from someplaceand we're going someplace.

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So we should make our timehere an exciting adventure.

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The architect of the universedidn't build a stairway leading nowhere.

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And the greatest teacher of all.

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The carpenter from the Plains of Galilee,

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who gave us the secret time and timeagain, as we believe so shall it be done?

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And to you.

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I have explained the strangest secret inthe world and how it works on this side.

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I want to explain how you can proveyourself the enormous returns possible

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in your own life by puttingthe secret to a practical test.

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I want you to make a testthat will last 30 days.

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It isn't going to be easy,but if you'll give it a good try,

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it will completely changeyour life for the better.

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Back in the 17th century,

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Sir Isaac Newton,the English mathematician and natural

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philosopher, gave us the natural lawsof physics, which apply as much to human

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beings as they do the movementof bodies in the universe.

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In one of these laws

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is that for every action,there is an equal and opposite reaction.

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Simply stated, as it applies to you

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and me, it means we can achieve nothingwithout paying the price.

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The results of your 30 day experiment will

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be in direct proportion to the effortyou put forth to be a doctor.

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You must pay the price of long years

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of difficult studyto be successful in selling.

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And remember that each of us succeedsto the extent of his ability to sell.

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Selling our families and our ideas.

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Selling education in schools.

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Selling our children on the advantagesof living the good and honest life.

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Selling our associates and employees

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on the importance of beingexceptional people.

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To, of course,the profession of selling itself.

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But to be successful in selling our way

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to the good life, we must bewilling to pay the price.

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And what is that price?

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Well, with many things.

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First, it's understanding emotionally aswell as intellectually that we literally

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become what we think aboutthat we must control.

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Our thoughts were to control our lives.

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It's understanding fully that asthese so so shall you reap.

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Second is cutting away all figures

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from the mind and permitting it to soaras it was divinely designed to do.

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It's the realisation that your limitationsare self-imposed

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and that the opportunities for youtoday are enormous beyond belief.

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It's rising above narrow mindedpettiness and prejudice.

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And third is using all your courage

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to force yourself to thinkpositively on your own problem.

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To set a definite and clearlydefined goal for yourself.

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To let your marvelous mind think aboutyour goals from all possible angles.

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To let your imagination speculate freelyupon many different possible solutions.

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To refuse to believethat there are any circumstances

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sufficiently strong to defeat youin the accomplishment of your purpose.

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To act promptly and decisivelywhen your course is clear.

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And to keep constantly aware of the fact

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that you are at this moment standingin the middle of your own acres

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of diamonds, as Russell Conwellused to point out.

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And fourth,save at least 10 percent

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of every dollar you earnis also remembering that no matter what

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your present job, it hasenormous possibilities.

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If you're willing to pay the price.

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Now, let's just go the important pointsin the price each of us must pay

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to achieve the wonderfullife that can be ours.

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It is, of course, worth any price.

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One you will become.

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What do you think about

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to remember the word imaginationand let your mind begin to soar?

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Three.Courage.

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Concentrate on your goal every day for.

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Save 10 percent of what you earn.

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And five action ideas are worthlessunless we act on them.

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I'll try to outline the 30day test I want you to make.

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Keep in mind that you have nothing to lose

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by making this test and everythingyou could possibly want to gain.

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There are two things that maybe said of everyone.

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Each was once somethingand each of us is afraid of something.

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I want you to write on a card.

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What are these you wantmore than anything else?

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It may be more money.

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Perhaps you'd like to double your incomeor make a specific amount of money.

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It may be a beautiful home.

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It may be success at your job.

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It may be a particular position in life.

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It could be a more harmonious family.

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Each of us wants something.

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Write down on your cardspecifically what it is you want.

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Make sure it's a singlegoal and clearly defined.

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You need to show it to anyone but carry it

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with you so that you can lookat it several times a day.

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Think about it in a cheerful,relaxed, positive way.

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Each morning when you get upand immediately something that workforce,

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something to get out of bed for,something to live for.

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Look at it every chance you get during

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the day and just beforegoing to bed at night.

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And as you look at it.

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Remember that you mustbecome what you think about.

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And since you're thinking about your goal,you realize that soon it will be yours.

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In fact, it's yours, really.

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The moment you write it downand begin to think about it.

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Look at the abundance all around youas you go about your daily business.

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You have as much right to this abundance

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as any other living creatureis yours for the asking.

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Now we come to the difficult part.

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Difficult because it means the formationof what is probably a brand new habit,

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the new habits and ideaswe formed once formed.

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However, it will follow youfor the rest of your life.

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Stop thinking about what it is you fear.

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Each time a fearful or negative thoughtcomes into your consciousness,

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replace it with a mental pictureof your positive and worthwhile goal.

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And there are some times whereyou feel like giving up.

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It's easier for a human beingto think negatively than positively.

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That's why only fivepercent are successful.

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You must begin to place yourselfin that group for 30 days.

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You must take control of your mind.

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It will think about only what you

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permitted to think abouteach day for this 30 day test.

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Do more than you have to do.

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In addition to maintaining a cheerful,

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positive outlook, give yourselfmore than you've ever done before.

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Do this knowing that your returns in life

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must be in direct proportionto what you give.

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The moment you.A goal to work toward your immediately

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a successful person,you are then in that rare and successful

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category of people who knowwhere they're going.

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Out of every hundred people you belong to,the top five

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don't concern yourself too much with howyou're going to achieve your goal.

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Leave that completely to a powergreater than yourself.

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All you have to do isknow where you're going.

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The answers will cometo you of their own accord.

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And at the right time.

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Remember these words from the Sermonon the Mount and remember them well.

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Keep them constantly before you.

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This month of your testask and it shall be given.

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You seek and ye shall find

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knock and it shall be opened unto youfor every that asks you receive.

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And he will seek it.Find it.

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And in that market it shall be opened.

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It's as marvelous and as simple as that.

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In fact, it's so simple.

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In our seemingly complicated world it'sdifficult for an adult to understand it.

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All he needs is a purposeand faith for 30 days.

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Do your very best.

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If you're a salesman, go at itas you've never done before.

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Not in a hectic fashion,but with the calm and cheerful assurance

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that time well spent will give youthe abundance in return you deserve.

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And what if you're a homemaker?

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Devote your 30 day test to completely

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giving of yourself without thinkingabout receiving anything in return.

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And you'd be amazed at the difference it

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makes in your life, no matter what yourjob doing as you've never done it before.

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For 30 days.

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And if you've kept your goal before you

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every day you will wonderand marvel at this new life.

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You found Dorothy a brand.

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The outstanding editor and writer

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discovered it for herself and tellsabout it in her fine book.

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Wake Up and Live.

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Her entire philosophy is reduced

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to the words act as thoughit were impossible to fail.

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She made her own test with sincerity

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and faith in her entire life waschanged to one of overwhelming success.

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Now you make your test for 34 days.

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Don't stand your test until you'vemade up your mind to stick with it.

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You see, by being persistent,you're demonstrating faith.

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Persistence is simplyanother word for faith.

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If you didn't have faith,you'd never persist.

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If you should fail duringyour first 30 days.

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By that, I mean suddenly find yourselfoverwhelmed by negative thoughts.

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You've got to start over againfrom that point and go 30 more days.

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Gradually, your new habit will form.

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Until you find yourself one

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of that wonderful minority to whomvirtually nothing is impossible.

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And don't forget the card.

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It's vitally important as you begin thisnew way of living on one side of the card.

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Right.

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Your goal, whatever it may beon the other side.

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Write the words we've quotedfrom the Sermon on the Mount.

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Ask and it shall be given.

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You seek an issue, find knockand it shall be opened unto you.

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Nothing great was everaccomplished without inspiration.

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See that during these crucial first 30

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days, your own inspirationhas come to the peak.

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And above all, don't worry.

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Where he brings fearand fear is crippling.

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The only thing that cancause you to worry.

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During your test was tryingto do it all yourself.

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Know that all you have to dois hold your goal before you.

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Everything else will take care of itself.

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Remember also to keep calm and cheerful.

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Don't get petty things,annoy you and get you off course.

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Since making this test isdifficult, I must say.

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Why should I bother?Well, look at the alternative.

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No one wants to be a failure.

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No one really wants to bea mediocre individual.

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No one wants a life tends to be filledwith worry and fear and frustration.

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Therefore, remember that youmust reap what you sow.

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If you're so negative that your lifewill be filled with negative things.

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If you're so positive that your life willbe cheerful, successful and positive.

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Gradually you have a tendency to forgetwhat you've heard on this recording.

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Play it often.

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Keep reminding yourself of what youmust do to form this new habit.

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Gather your whole family around at regular

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intervals and listento what's been said here.

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You know, most men will tell you that they

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want to make money withoutunderstanding the law.

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The only people who makemoney work in a minute.

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The rest of us must earn money.

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This is what causes those who keep looking

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for something for nothing ora free ride to fail in life.

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The only way to earn money is by providing

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people with services or productswhich are needed and useful.

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We exchange our time and our productor service for the other man's money.

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Therefore, the law is that our financial

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return will be in directproportion to our service.

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Success is not the result of making money.

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Making money is the result of success.

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And success is in directproportion to our service.

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Most people have this law backwards.

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They believe that you're successfulif you earn a lot of money.

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The truth is that you can only earnmoney after you're successful.

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It's like the story of a man who sat

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in front of a stove and said, do it,give me heat and then I'll add the wood.

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How many men and women do you know or do

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you suppose there are today who takethe same attitude toward life?

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There are millions.

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We've got to put the fewin before we can expect heat.

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Likewise, we've got to be of service firstbefore we can expect money.

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Don't concern yourself with the money.

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Be of service, build, work, dream, create,

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do this and you find there's no limitto the prosperity of abundance will come

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to prosperity and was foundedupon a law of mutual exchange.

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Any person who contributes to prosperitymust prosper and turn himself.

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Sometimes the return will not come

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from those you serve,but it must come to you from someplace.

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Because that's the one where every actionthere is an equal and opposite reaction.

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As you go daily through your 30 day testperiod, remember that your success will

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always be measured by the qualityand quantity of service you render.

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And money is the yardstickfor measuring this service.

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No man can get rich himselfunless he enriches others.

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There are no exceptions to a law.

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You can drive down any street in Americaand from your car estimate the service is

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being rendered where the peopleliving on the street.

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Had you ever thoughtof this yardstick before?

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It's interesting.

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Some, like ministers and priests and other

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devoted people, measured their returnsin the realm of the spiritual.

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But again, their returnsare equal to their service.

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Once this was fully understood,

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any thinking person can have hisown fortune if he wants more.

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He must be of more service to thosefrom whom he receives his return.

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If he wants less, he hasonly reduced the service.

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This is the price you mustpay for what you want.

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If you believe you can enrich yourself

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by deluding others,you can end only by deluding yourself.

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It may take some time,

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but just as surely as you breathe,you will get back what you put out.

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Don't ever make the mistakeof thinking you can avert this.

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It's impossible.

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The prisons and the streets with a lonely

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walk are filled with people who triedto make new laws just for themselves.

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We may avoid the laws of man for a while,

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but there are greater laws that cannotbe broken and outstanding.

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Medical doctor recently pointed out sixsteps that will help you realize success.

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One such as our definite goalto quit running yourself down.

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Three.

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Stop thinking of all the reasonswhy you cannot be successful.

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And instead think of allthe reasons why you can.

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For Tracy, your attitudes back throughyour childhood and try to discover where

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you first got the idea youcouldn't be successful.

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If that's the way you've been thinking.

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Five changed the image you have

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of yourself by writing out a descriptionof the person you would like to be.

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And six, at the part of the successfulperson you have decided to become.

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The doctor who wrote those words as

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a noted West Coast psychiatrist,Dr David Herot.

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Think.Do what the experts since the dawn

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of recorded history havetold you you must do.

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Pay the price by becomingthe person you want to become.

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It's not nearly as difficultas living unsuccessfully.

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Make your 30 day test and repeat it,

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then repeat it again and each timeit will become more a part of you.

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Until you wonder how you couldever have lived any other way.

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Live this new way and the floodgatesof abundance will open and pour over you

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more riches than you mayhave dreamed existed.

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Money is lots of it.

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But what's more important, you have peace.

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You'll be in that wonderful minority wholead calm, cheerful, successful lives.

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Start today.

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You have nothing to lose,but you have a whole life to win.

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And thank you.